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From: green@ai.toronto.edu (Anthony Thomas Green)
Subject: Re: How are people developing?
Message-ID: <90Jul15.172416edt.8293@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 15 Jul 90 21:25:17 GMT
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I've tried using the PWB and it's a pig. I was running it in a full screen
DOS window in 386 mode. If you don't have at least 8 Meg of RAM to put on
a RAM disk, then you'll spend a lot of time waiting for it to boot and swap
itself in and out for shells and makes. NMAKE is a monsterous program, and
my machine would frequently run out of memory whilst in mid-compile (I have 
a 4 Meg machine). I began using NMK (the stripped down version of NMAKE) but
quickly went back to trusty old NDMAKE (shareware).

Somebody (Hello Microsoft) should come up with a good Windows programming
editor. I use FREEMACS in a full screen DOS window and am frustrated with
flipping back and forth between screens. Running it in a window is too
slow. Am I the only one... or would other people like a programmable windows
editor? Should we start some sort of distributed application development going?
I think that this sort of thing has worked in the past (NetHack for instance).
Ideas anyone?
 
Anthony T. Green
green@ai.toronto.edu